Cigar-rolling apron



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Patented May 23, 1893.

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P. 0. MILLER." CIGAR ROLLING APBON. i No. 498,134. Patented May 23,1893.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

- EREDERIoK o. MILLEROF NEwPoRnKENTUoKY.

CIGAR-ROLLING APRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,134, dated May 23,1893. Application filed February 1890. $erial No. 339,041. (ModeL) T0 (1whom it may concern.-

-- -Be it known that I, FREDERICK o. MILLER,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, in the county ofCampbell and State I) of Kentucky, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Cigar-Rolling Aprons, of which the following is aspecification. I

in which a Figure I is a plan view of an apron embodying my invention.Fig. II is a section on the line IIII, Fig. I. Fig. III is a Viewlooking toward the butt end of the pocket, a portion only of the apronbeingshown. Figs. IV, V, VI and VII represent the operation of my bunchrolling apron. Fig. IV represents the apron in position for receivingthe tobacco, the pocket being supported in the die of the follower. Fig.V represents the position of the apron after the tobacco has beendeposited in the pocket, but before the roller has commenced to act.Fig. VI represents the position of the apron after the roller hascommenced to act, the tobacco being inclosed in the bite of the apron.Fig. VII represents the position of the apron at the point of deliveringthe rolled bunch.

A is the apronhaving a transverse pocket. B stamped or otherwise formedtherein, said pocket having a point C and a butt D, and being ofsemi-circular shape in cross section and approximately of the shape ofthe cigar bunch to be rolled, and in which pocket the filler for thebunch is deposited, to be rolled in the binder, thereby greatlycontrolling the shape of the bunch.

The operation of my improved bunch rollingapron is substantially thesame as in my patent, No.416,117, grantedNovember26,1889. The apron issupported between the arms 74 and 91,- over the curved table 74 and thefollower 21. The bunch-roller 46 is supported upon the arm 42 behind thefollower 21. The

tobacco to be rolled into a hunch is deposited on the apron A in thepocket D, the parts being at the commencement of the operation in theposition shown in Fig. IV. The follower 21 is next lowered fromundertheapron as indicated in Fig. V, and the roller 46 move forward asindicated in Fig. VI, so that the tobacco will be inclosed in the biteof the apron. The roller is moved along the table to the position shownin Fig. VII, which action rolls the bunch into the required form anddeposits it in readiness for the mold. The operation of these parts isclearly set forth in my. said former patent, but it is quite obviousthat my improved form of bunch rolling apron can be employed incombination with other forms of mechanism without departing from thescope of my invention. Thus, for example, when the apronis employed onmachines not having theequivalent of the follower 21, it would besupported between the arms 74 and 71, upon the bunch-roller 46. Thepocket B is shown nearly flat in Fig. VII, which is caused by thetension of the arms 74 and 91.

The apron is preferably elastic, but it may be made of any suitablematerial.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bunch-rolling apron formed with a single pocket of approximatelythe shape of the bunch to be rolled arranged transversely in the apronand extending nearly across the same as shown and described.

2. A bunch-rolling apron formed of elastic material, with a singlepocket of approximately the shape of the bunch to be rolled extendingnearly across the apron as herein shown and described.

3. The combination of abunch-rollingapron, suitably supported at itsends formed with a transverse single pocket, adapted to receive thefiller of a cigar, with the follower 21 and bunch-roller 46substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

FREDERICK C. MILLER.

Witnesses:

NAPOLEON DU BRUL, FRANK O. MILLER.

Written and printed Frederick O..Mi11er, whereas said name should havebeen written Patent Oftice.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 30th day of May, A. D. 1893.

JNO. M. REYNOLDS,

7 Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Gountersigned:

S. T. FISHER,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 498,134.

It is hereb certified that the name of the patentee in Letters PatentNo. 498,134. I

' granted May 23, 1893, for an improvement in Oigar-Rolling Aprons, waserroneously I end printed Fredrick G. Miller and that the said LettersPatent should be read with E this correction therein that the same mayconform to the record of the ease in the

